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Bilingual Education
Refers to a wide range of program forms and services that use two languages to deliver instruction. Often controversial, bilingual edu cation seeks to promote the scholastic success of minority language students in culturally plural societies as these students acquire proficiency in the majority language. In the United States, as in many destination countries around the world, bilingual education has become a civil and human rights matter, which both affirms the nation's multilingual past, present, and future and represents the deep historical patterns of domination and struggle over economic, political, and social control in society.